Goodwill is Olympian effort as Games bring foes together

Kim Yo-jong, sister of the North Korean leader, and Mike Pence, the US vice-president, at the openingODD ANDERSEN/AFP/GETTY

In annotating a photograph (Feb 10), we misidentified the disputed island of Dokdo, which is administered by South Korea and also claimed, under the name Takeshima, by Japan. The island highlighted in our photograph of the flag carried by Korean athletes at the Winter Olympics is not the subject of any dispute. The flag carried in the opening ceremony did not in fact include the disputed island. We apologise for the mistake.

There were fireworks and pop songs, giant puppets of a loping white tiger and phoenixes propelled by bicycles.

Yet the most interesting element of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics was not the performances in the stadium, but the drama in the VIP box far above it.

There, a handful of the…

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